Vintage straight razors are extremely common. Unless they come in sets, or fancy boxes, or have really incredible scales, or they're really old,...
Very lucky find :P
Done a bit of research and they do look like an old-fashioned bell-pull set of hardware. The upper piece would connect to the actual bell-wire,...
Maybe it's a liquor flask for pixies?
It's either a flask for alcohol, or for smelling salts.
If that whole set is 800 silver, you got a great deal! ...of polishing! But still, very nice! If it is 800 and if you DO polish, please note...
I do love me some guilloche enameling. This is my pair of ca. 1890 opera-glasses. I show people my fancy brass binoculars? Meh. I show them my...
My research says P&S was established in 1838, by a Henry Pierce & his three sons, who owned a chain of silversmithing & jewelry shops throughout...
Eh. Pearce & Sons was what was stamped on the base. PEARCE & SONS SILVERSMITHS LEEDS
It is rather cute! The challenge now, is finding a good home for it.
That much I had surmised on my own, I just wasn't sure what it held or where it might've come from. There's still a strong scent of whatever was...
This was the other thing I won, along with the big silver basket thingy... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hallmarks date it to 1923 and I...
I won this, and a little silver scent-bottle at the auction-house yesterday. Never expected to, but I did! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
I have some Victorian-era sterling silver British coins (half-crown, shilling, sixpence, etc). And I have two Straits Settlements silver coins...
No you did not.
The VAST majority of Peranakan families came from southern China (We're talking CENTURIES and CENTURIES ago). Places like Canton, Hong Kong, etc....
A silver-mounted conductor's baton isn't likely to be worth a great deal, even if it is old, unless you have two music-history buffs who really...
Impossible to give a value when we don't know what it is. It looks like an ebony & sterling silver conductor's baton. Or maybe an illusionist's...
I knew these looked familiar. They're called cucuk sanggul (Malay. Literally 'Bun-pokers', as in hair-buns). They were common in the Straits...
I KNEW IT!!!
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